Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1887-01-20
SAN FRANCISCO AND VICINITY.

Five new cases of diphtheria were re-
ported at the Health Office Yesterday.
The men on the Nonantum and Ivanhoe,
coasting vessels, struck yesterday for an in
crease of pay from $25 to $50 per month
| The demand was conceded, and will be
| made on other ships.
The Supreme Court has affirmed the
| Judgment and order of the Court below in
the case of John Rogers, convicted of muir
der in the first degree and sentenced to life
imprisonment for killing John H. Kimball,
in Eureka, Humboldt county, on May 2Sth
last.
The circuit of the Mackay- Bennett Cable
Company, between Saa Francisco and Red
Bluff, was tested Tuesday afternoon, and
worked to perfection. Messages were sent
over the line without any hinderance. Sew
eral more connections with interior towns
will be completed in few days.
Arrangements are being made by The
Southern Pacific Railroad Company for
two through trains daily between Oakland
and Los Angeles. The regular Southern
overland will probably run on the regular
time, and the Tulare train will run through
to Los Angeles, connecting at MOhave with
the Atlantic and Pacific and arriving at
Oakland at P. NJ.
The five-year-old boy of Charles Stearns,
of Oakland, a driver on the Telegraph
avenue line of street cars, tried to separate
two dogs which were fighting at his fathers
residence in Temescal yesterday, when one
of them turned on him and bit him dan
gerously on the hand and wrist. The dogs
teeth went clear through the center of the
little fellows hand.
Superintendent McCord says that during
4 rk-.1 49, 1xa
road have been more or less damaged. The
total loss in injury to the property is not
less than $4,000. From the falling off of
travel, resulting from the strike and dyna-
mite explosions. the road lost from $45, 900
to $780, 900, making the total losses to date
since the strike began, from 100000 to
$4,000.
The Supreme Court has reversed the
Judgment and order in the case of John
Heinlen VS.. August Heilbron, on technical
grounds. The action was brought to re-
cover damages for the diversion of waters
from Cole Slough, or Kings river, and for
a perpetual injunction restraining the de-
PENDANTS from diverting the waters thereof.
The judgment of the Court below was in
favor of the plaintiff.
A special meeting Of the Executive Com
mittee of the Irish American Republicans
was held tuesday evening. The main OBJ
ject of the meeting was to perfect arrange
ments for the coming Presidential cam
paign. A resolution was drawn up calling
upon all good Republicans to stand for
Blaine and Stanford. Correspondence has
been opened with Irish-American clubs
throughout the State and with the Irish
American National Committee.
Jas. B. Hume, chief detective for Wells,
Fargo & Co., has made his annual report,
which shows the companys stages were
robbed fifteen times, and their offices burg
lariously entered eight times. The nine
robberies in this State only resulted in
loss of about 81, 500. and all this was re-
coved save S2S5. The other six stages only
yielded up 81 100. The burglars realized
only 1919 81 by their levy on.Wells, Fargo
& Co. Two of them occurred in Alameda
county and one each in Los Angeles, So
mona, Yuba, Santa Cruz and Solano coun-
ties.